How God Showed His Love (Dec 26)

This is how God showed his love among us:  He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
                              1 John 4:9 NIV

This passage leads one to consider the passage, John 3:16:  For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  In considering John 3:16, certainly reflect on what the gift of Jesus meant for mankind, but also consider God's great role in this passage.  In view of 1John 4:9, consider the way God loved the world.

God gave us a gift that was in accord with His perfect, whole and complete plan of salvation.  A plan God created in response to the day Adam and Eve fell from full and intimate fellowship with God by disobedience.  I am certain, after mankind's fall, that God took less than a moment to author His necessary, prerequisite, full, whole and complete plan of salvation for mankind through the gift of His one and only Son on the cross.  A Son who shed his blood for our sin and arose from the dead to provide our eternal life

Consider God's attributes; love, creator, giver of life, author of our salvation, Holy Holy Holy, judge, infinite, wise, and others might come to mind.

It was the way that God showed His love that saved us from our sin.  We are not saved from our sin by something we do.  We sin because we are sinners.  It is only by the gift of faith from the Spirit that we can look to Christ's work for our salvation.  Thanks be to God.

How do you thankfully respond to what God has done?